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PSU-AAUP: 2016–a very successful year

by José Padín, President, PSU-AAUP At Portland State University, the AAUP chapter ends the year with a lot to be proud about. I will share some highlights here, but just in case I lose you midway, I want to start with thanks. Many thanks to all the members of the Executive Council — all volunteer member-leaders — those who ended their terms in April, and those currently on the EC. Many thanks to all of our members serving on task forces. Here are some highlights from our year 2016. Our membership is at an historic high of 83 percent of…

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President’s Column: Strange Times and We Need Strong Academic Unions

  by José Padín, President The unimagined has happened.   Because national leadership has aided and abetted growing privilege, widening inequality, and deepening economic insecurity, popular anger with the course of our country united in rejecting business as usual in politics.   Yet, the popular anger fragmented in a dangerous way in the elections that just took place.   Too many Americans felt alienated, and they stayed at home on election day.   Too many others were drawn in by the appeal of mean-spirited hatred of imaginary monsters conjured up by a presidential demagogue. Mexicans, he said, are all criminals…

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